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  • Paper on "Portfolio Compression in Financial Networks: Incentives and Systemic Risk" accepted at EC'20

  • Paper on "The Competitive Effects of Variance-based Pricing" accepted at IJCAI'20

  • 2 Postdoc positions and 2 PhD positions available (AI, Machine Learning, Algorithmic Game Theory): apply now!

  • Sven Seuken

    Interview with Sven Seuken on "How to use AI to design better marketplaces" (in German)

    The current edition of the UZH magazine focuses on "Artificial Intelligence." Sven Seuken was interviewed on how we can use AI to design better marketplaces.

  • Steffen Schuldenzucker and Gianluca Brero each win an SNF Early PostDoc.Mobility Fellowship

  • 4 PhD students successfully defended their PhD thesis

  • Paper "Deep Learning-powered Iterative Combinatorial Auctions" accepted at AAAI'20

  • Paper "Default Ambiguity: Credit Default Swaps Create New Systemic Risks in Financial Networks" published in Management Science

  • Paper "Cloud Pricing: The Spot Market Strikes Back" accepted at EC'19

  • Paper "Fast Iterative Combinatorial Auctions via Bayesian Learning" accepted at AAAI-19

  • Sven Seuken has joined the Editorial Board of "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation (TEAC)"

    Sven Seuken has joined the Editorial Board of the journal "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation (TEAC)" starting in September 2018.

  • Three new PhD students have joined the ERC project MIAMI

    Three new PhD students have just joined our research group: Stefania Ionescu, Nils Olberg, and Jakob Weissteiner. They will all work on the ERC project "Machine Learning-based Market Design (MIAMI)". Welcome!!

  • Sven Seuken was awarded an ERC Starting Grant

    Sven Seuken was award a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). His research project at the intersection of Market Design and Machine Learning will be supported with 1’375’000 Euro over a time period of five years.

  • Sven Seuken to Participate in Panel on Machine Learning and/vs. Algorithmic Game Theory at AI Workshop

    On July 15, Sven Seuken will participate in a panel discussion on "Machine Learning and (vs.?) Algorithmic Game Theory" during the AAMAS-IJCAI Workshop on Agents and Incentives in Artificial Intelligence

  • Three Talks on "Machine Learning-powered Combinatorial Auctions"

    Over the next 2 months, Gianluca Brero, Benjamin Lubin and Sven Seuken will each give a talk about their newest work on "Machine Learning-powered Combinatorial Auctions" at workshops co-located with EC'18 and at IJCAI-ECAI'18.

  • Two fully funded PhD positions in Computer Science: apply now!

    We are inviting applications for 2 fully funded PhD positions in Computer Science.

  • Two papers accepted at EC-18

    Two papers from the Computation and Economics Research Group were accepted at EC-18.

  • Two papers accepted at IJCAI-ECAI-18

    Two new papers from our group were accepted to IJCAI-ECAI-18.

  • Paper "A Bayesian Clearing Mechanism for Combinatorial Auctions" accepted at AAAI-18

  • Sven Seuken among "Top 40 under 40"

    The German business magazine "Capital" has ranked Sven Seuken as one of the "Top 40 under 40." Since 2007, the magazine publishes a "Top 40 under 40" ranking every year for four different categories. Sven Seuken was selected for the category "Society and Science" which selects high potentials from scientific institutions, unions, non-profit organizations, as well as cultural and sports organizations.

  • Sven Seuken to deliver keynote talk on "Market Design meets Machine Learning" at the "AI Finance Summit" in Zurich

  • BandwidthX Appoints Sven Seuken as Chief Economist

  • Promotion of Sven Seuken to Associate Professor (with Tenure)

  • Short film about "Markets without money"

    The Graduate Campus (GRC) has produced a short video on the research of Timo Mennle about markets without money.

  • Keynote Talk on "Design of Machine Learning-based Mechanisms" at Dagstuhl

  • Paper "Computing Bayes-Nash Equilibria in Combinatorial Auctions with Continuous Actions" accepted to IJCAI'17

    Two new papers from our group were accepted to AAMAS 2017.

  • Timo Mennle wins Mercator Award 2017

    Timo Mennle has been awarded the Mercator Awards 2017 for Junior Researchers in the area of Law and Economics for his dissertation.

  • Two papers accepted at AAMAS 2017

    Two new papers from our group were accepted to AAMAS 2017.

  • Paper "Probably Approximately Efficient Combinatorial Auctions via Machine Learning" accepted at AAAI-17

    The paper "Probably Approximately Efficient Combinatorial Auctions via Machine Learning" by Gianluca Brero, Benjamin Lubin, and Sven Seuken was accepted to AAAI-17.

  • Paper "Finding Clearing Payments in Financial Networks with Credit Default Swaps is PPAD-hard" accepted at ITCS'17

    The paper "Finding Clearing Payments in Financial Networks with Credit Default Swaps is PPAD-hard" by Steffen Schuldenzucker, Sven Seuken, and Stefano Battiston was accepted to ITCS'17.

  • Talks on "First Choice-Maximizing School Choice Mechanisms" in Cologne & Budapest

    Timo Mennle will give talks on "First Choice-Maximizing School Choice Mechanisms" at the Seminar of the Desing and Behavior Research Group of the University of Cologne (Cologne, November 22, 2016) and at the 12th Workshop Matching in Practice (Budapest, December 15, 2016).

  • Vitor Bosshard joins our group as a new PhD student

  • New Working Paper "Finding Clearing Payments in Financial Networks with Credit Default Swaps is PPAD-hard"

  • Presentation of "An Axiomatic Framework for No-Arbitrage Relationships in Financial Derivatives Markets" at LOFT 2016

    Steffen Schuldenzucker will give a poster talk on An Axiomatic Framework for No-Arbitrage Relationships in Financial Derivatives Markets at LOFT 2016, the 12th Conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory to be held between July 20 and July 24, 2016 in Maastricht, The Netherlands.

  • Two new papers accepted at EC'16

    Two papers from our group were accepted at EC'16: "Clearing Payments in Financial Networks with Credit Default Swaps" and "The Pareto Frontier for Random Mechanisms"

  • Daniel Abächerli wins Award for best BSc Thesis

    Daniel Abächerli will be awarded the "Semesterpreis" for his excellent Bachelor's thesis on the "Computing Pareto Frontiers for Randomized Mechanisms."

  • Talk on "Partial Strategyproofness: An Axiomatic Approach to Relaxing Strategyproofness for Assignment Mechanisms" at GAMES 2016

    Timo Mennle will give a talk on "Partial Strategyproofness: An Axiomatic Approach to Relaxing Strategyproofness for Assignment Mechanisms" at the GAMES 2016, the 5th World Congress of the Game Theory Society to be held between July 24 and July 28, 2016 in Maastricht, The Netherlands.

  • Talk on "The Pareto Frontier for Random Mechanisms" at Social Choice and Welfare

    Timo Mennle will give a talk on "The Pareto Frontier for Random Mechanisms" at the 13th Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare to be held between June 28 and July 1, 2016 in Lund, Sweden.

  • Paper "Personalized Hitting Time for Informative Trust Mechanisms Despite Sybils" accepted at AAMAS'16

    In this paper, we introduce the personalized hitting time (PHT) mechanism, which we show to be significantly more robust to sybil attacks than the global hitting time (GHT) mechanism. Furthermore, we provide an experimental analysis which demonstrates that, in the presence of strategic agents that create sybils, PHT dominates GHT (as well as PageRank and personalized PageRank) in terms of informativeness.

  • Paper "It is too Hot: An In-Situ Study of Three Designs for Heating" accepted at CHI'16

    We present results from a field experiment, where 30 UK households used our smart thermostats to heat their homes over a month. Our findings through thematic analysis show that the participants formed different understandings and expectations of our smart thermostat, and used it in various ways to effectively respond to real-time prices while maintaining their thermal comfort.

  • Timo Mennle successfully defended his PhD Thesis on "Trade-offs between Strategyproofness and Efficiency of Ordinal Mechanisms"

    On December 8, 2015, Timo Mennlesuccessfully defended his PhD thesis with summa cum laude. We congratulate Timo for this outstanding achievement!

  • Talk on "The Pareto Frontier for Random Mechanisms" at the Meeting of COST Action IC1250 on Computational Social Choice

    On November 2-4, 2015, Timo Mennle will give a talk at the Meeting of the COST Action IC1250 on Computational Social Choice in Istanbul, Turkey on "The Pareto Frontier for Random Mechanisms"

  • Ludwig Dierks joins our group as a new PhD student

    Ludwig Dierkshas just joined our research group as a new PhD student. Welcome!!

  • Talk at INFORMS'15 on "New Core-Selecting Payment Rules with Better Fairness and Incentive Properties"

    On November 1st, 2015, Sven Seuken will give a talk at INFORMS'15 on "New Core-Selecting Payment Rules with Better Fairness and Incentive Properties".

  • Use CoRe (Course Recommender) to plan your Fall semester 2015

    You can now use CoRe, our Course Recommender tool, to get recommendations for courses at UZH based on your personal preferences and plan your Fall semester 2015. You can access CoRe with your Switch-AAI login at: https://core.ifi.uzh.ch.

  • Two papers accepted at AMMA'15

    Our group got two papers accepted at AMMA'15.

  • Talk on "Partial Strategyproofness: An Axiomatic Approach to Relaxing Strategyproofness for Assignment Mechanisms" at ESWC'15

    On August 17, 2015, Timo Mennle will give a talk at the World Congress of the Econometric Society (ESWC'15) in Montreal, Canada on "Partial Strategyproofness: An Axiomatic Approach to Relaxing Strategyproofness for Assignment Mechanisms."

  • Paper "The Power of Local Manipulation Strategies in Assignment Mechanisms" accepted at IJCAI 2015

    We present results from a behavioral experiment, showing that human manipulation strategies under assignment mechanisms can largely be explained by greedy, local search heuristics. Furthermore, while such heuristics are not always optimal, they are very effective at solving the agent's manipulation problem on average.

  • Benedikt Bünz wins Award for his BSc Thesis

    Benedikt Bünz, who is now a Master's student at Stanford University, won an award (the "Semesterpreis") for his Bachelor's thesis written in 2014 at the Department of Informatics.

  • New Working Paper "The Efficient Frontier in Randomized Social Choice"

    We give a structural analysis of the efficient frontier in randomized social choice when strategyproofness is relaxed by allowing small amounts of manipulability.

  • Try out CoRe (Course Recommender) to find new courses at UZH based on your personal preferences

    Try out CoRe, our new Course Recommender tool, to get recommendations for courses at UZH based on your personal preferences. You access CoRe with your Switch-AAI login at: https://core.ifi.uzh.ch.

  • Sven Seuken has received a research grant from Microsoft Research

    Sven Seuken has received a research grant from Microsoft Research for his project proposal "Preference Elicitation and Mechanism Design for Complex Dynamic Systems."

  • New Working Paper "Fairness Beyond the Core: New Payment Rules for Combinatorial Auctions"

    We study payment rules for combinatorial auctions via a computational Bayes-Nash equilibrium analysis and we find that the most commonly used rule is particularly unfair towards small players. We propose alternative, fairer payment rules that correct this unfairness while retaining the high efficiency of the incumbent rule.

  • Paper accepted at AAAI'15

    Our paper "A Faster Core Constraint Generation Algorithm for Combinatorial Auctions" was accepted at AAAI'15.

  • Sven Seuken was awarded an SNSF research grant

    Sven Seuken was awarded a research grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for his research project "Trading off Strategyproofness and Efficiency in Matching Markets."

  • Three new PhD students have joined our research group

    Three new PhD students have just our research group: Gianluca Brero, Dmitry Moor, and Steffen Schuldenzucker. Welcome!!

  • Talk on "Combinatorial Bandwidth Markets" at OR'2014

    On September 3rd, 2014, Sven Seuken will give a talk at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR)in Aachen, Germany on how to design a combinatorial bandwidth market.

  • Sven Seuken has joined the editorial board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)

    Sven Seuken has joined the editorial board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) for a three-year term on July 1st, 2014.

  • New Working Paper "The Naive versus the Adaptive Boston Mechanism"

    We present a new variant of the Boston mechanism and compare it to the traditional Boston mechanism as well as Random Serial Dictatoriship in a setting without priorities.

  • Our letter on "Relaxing Strategyproofness in One-Sided Matching" has been published in the ACM SIGecom Exchanges

    Our letter on "Relaxing Strategyproofness in One-Sided Matching" has been published in the ACM SIGecom Exchanges on June 2, 2014.

  • Two fully funded PhD positions in Economics and Computation: apply now!

    We are inviting applications for 2 fully funded PhD positions in "Economics and Computation."

  • Our paper "The Adaptive Boston Mechanism" was accepted for presentation at the Matching in Practice workshop in Berlin

    Our paper "The Adaptive Boston Mechanism" was accepted for presentation at the Matching in Practice workshop to take place in Berlin on June 16-17, 2014.

  • One paper accepted at EC'14

    Our paper "An Axiomatic Approach to Characterizing and Relaxing Strategyproofness of One-sided Matching Mechanisms" was accepted at EC'14.

  • Sven Seuken and Abraham Bernstein were awared an SNSF grant

    Sven Seuken and Abraham Bernstein were awarded a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for their research project "A Market-based Approach for Querying the Web of Data."

  • Two full papers accepted at AAMAS'14

    Our group got two full papers accepted at AAMAS'14.

  • New Working Paper "An Axiomatic Approach to Characterizing and Relaxing Strategyproofness of One-sided Matching Mechanisms"

    We present a new, axiomatic approach to characterizing and relaxing strategyproofness in the assignment domain.

  • New Collaboration with Zhejiang University and Alibaba

    On November 11th, we celebrated the opening of the new "Interdisciplinary Research Lab on Service, Economics, Management and Compution (SEMCom)" at Zhejiang University in China. The primary goal of this new collaboration is to enable interdisciplinary research on topics at the intersection of computing, electronic market design, and e-commerce.

  • Basil Philipp wins Award for best BSc Thesis

    Basi Philipp, who is now a Master's student at the IfI, won an award (the "Semesterpreis") for the best Bachelor's thesis written in Spring 2013 at the Department of Informatics.

  • New paper on "An Active Learning Approach to Home Heating in the Smart Grid"

    The paper An Active Learning Approach to Home Heating in the Smart Gridby Mike Shann and Sven Seuken was accepted to IJCAI'13.

  • New working paper on "Behavioral Factors in Market User Interface Design"

    New working paper on Behavioral Factors in Market User Interface Designby Sven Seuken, David C. Parkes, Eric Horvitz, Kamal Jain, Mary Czerwinski, and Desney Tan.

  • Sven Seuken was awarded an SNSF grant

    Sven Seuken received a research grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for his project "Foundations of Market User Interface Design and Applications to the Smart Grid" (duration: 01.04.2013 - 31.03.2016).

  • Sven Seuken wins Google Faculty Research Award

    Sven Seuken wins a Google Faculty Research Award for his research project on "Human Recommender Systems". The award amounts to $76,000 for one year.

  • New working paper on "Partially Strategyproof Mechanisms"

    New working paper on Partially Strategyproof Mechanisms for the Assignment Problemby Timo Mennle and Sven Seuken.

  • Sven Seuken receives research grant from the Hasler Foundation

    Sven Seuken was awarded a research grant from the Hasler Foundation for a new research project on "Matching Markets".

  • Paper published at EC'12 on "Market User Interface Design"

    Sven Seuken, David C. Parkes, Eric Horvitz, Kamal Jain, Mary Czerwinski, and Desney Tan published a new paper on Market User Interface Designin the Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), Valencia, Spain.